‘Unmadham’ movie review: Shahi Kabir’s promising meta-narrative loses steam while juggling genres
The film 'Unmadham', directed by Shahi Kabir, is reviewed as a promising but uneven meta-narrative that struggles to balance crime, psychological drama, and supernatural elements. While Kunchacko Boban’s performance is praised, the script is criticized for relying on convenient plot devices.
One can sense self-indulgence in the air when a police officer-turned-successful screenwriter writes a film about a policeman struggling to enter the film industry as a scriptwriter, incorporating the uncommon tales that he encountered in service. Shahi Kabir , one of the early players in this peculiar phenomenon of police officers-turned-screenwriters that has swept Malayalam cinema, does not serve a straight-up procedural this time around in Unmadham .
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